Non-refillable bottle.



PATENTED JULY 17, 1906.

A. PERSON. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLIOATION FILED APR. 17,1905

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-UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIO E.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 1'7, 1906.

Application filed April 17, 1905. Serial No. 255,896.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I,ANDERS PERSON, a subject of the King of Sweden and Norway, residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N on- Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a clear and correct description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure 1 shows a bottle-neck with my improvement shown in central vertical section. Fig. 2 shows a bottle-neck in central vertical section with the parts within it in perspective, also showing a small part in central vertical section. Fig. 3 shows a plan view of Fig. 2 on the cutting-plane 3 3 of Fig. 2, and the broken line 2 2 indicates the cuttingplane on which the vertical sections of Figs. 1, 2, and 7 are made. Fig. 4 shows the parts I) and l below the plane 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 shows the top of Fig. 4 in plan view. Fig. 6 shows the top of the parts which are inside of the walls of the bottle in plan view. Fig. 7 shows a bottle-neck constructed as a part of my said new invention shown in central vertical section.

Like referenceletters throughout.

The ob'ect of my invention is to construct a non-re lable bottle which shall be economical and reliable in its action. To attain said desirable end, I construct my said new structure in substantially the following manner, namely: v

I make the cork-chamber 0 of the bottleneck a larger than the neck below said chamber and provide the neck below said chamber with a metal tube 6, having a screwthreaded flange 7', and beneath saidflange and in the material of the neck a is a coned chamber n, inside of which is an annular chamber h, or, in other words, there is a space between the line of the cone and the tube b. To the tube 1) are attached springs Z, which move in said annular chamber h when the tube 6 is screwed to its place. The free ends of said springs I click into a series of successive shoulders or stops "5, cut into the walls of said chamber n. Notches m receive the ends denote like parts I of a suitable instrument, with which to drive home the screw. A gasket 76, of suitable material, is placed between the lower face of the flange and the shoulder of the neck to make a tight joint. Said tube when screwed to place is inseparable from the bottle, as the springs Z form braces which prevent the unscrewing of the tube 6, and said parts so united remain inseparable.

Near the upper end of the tube 1) are several transverse partitions 0, provided with passages g, which are placed as far as possible from being in the 'same axial line for the purpose of thereby preventing the inserting and passing of a wire below said partitions, while at the same time liquids may flow out from the bottle. Below said partitions of fixed diaphragms are a series of annular ledges f, to each of which are hinged valves (1, and to their under sides are secured light springs e, which are fastened to the tube 6 at one end, and their free ends are secured to the bottom of the valves, as shown. Said springs are to be strong enough to close the valves when the tube 6 is horizontal, so as to prevent the opening of the valves d and to thus allow the flow of the liquid.

It is evident that in a bottle provided with my said mechanism no liquid can be passed into the bottle, while the flow of it outwardly is easy, and that it will not be possible to tamper with this structure without destroying it, and thereby disclose tampering. In this case the bottle is filled before the tube 5 is screwed to its place.

What I claim is In a non-refillable bottle, a shoulder forming, with the neck, a cork-chamber, a metal tube in said neck provided with a threaded flange, a screw-threaded chamber-wall under the cork chamber for said flange, coned chamber-walls below said threaded wall, stops cut in said coned wall and springs on said tube having free ends received in said stops.

ANDERS PERSON. Witnesses WM. ZIMMERMAN, N. ORR. 

